When I talk to millennials coming into management and programming it appears that their knowledge of the mainframe is very limited or non-existent. Since many universities have stopped teaching mainframe classes, the recent college graduates don’t...

Hi community, this is a quick overview of what IBM is offering for automation on the mainframe. Tivoli System Automation for z/OS IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS) is a NetView-based application designed to provide a single point of control for...

Both IMS and Enterprise COBOL had new and exciting announcements this year. COBOL and IMS continue to deliver leading edge technologies to facilitate application integration, modernization, as well as improving application performance. Roland Koo, Product...

There will be a mainframe 50 event next Tuesday - April 8, at 2 p.m. ET. I recommend to watch this live stream. You will find more information here . By the way on April 7 is the 50th anniversary of the first mainframe announcement. The IBM System/360 was...

I wanted to let you know about a free webcast coming up later this week that will be of interest to anyone faced with managing increasing complexity in your networks. Titled "Solving Application and Network Issues with OMEGAMON and NetView" and...

SMF causing small allocations of ESQA to be orphaned for all address spaces. Systems which are IPL infrequently can have 10s of thousands of these small pieces orphaned. This large volume of individual allocations increase OMEGAMON CPU to monitor Common...

The embedded data feature is introduced in the latest release of the OMEGAMON family of products. The new feature speeds up your problem determination efforts by making data from one product available in another's enhanced 3270UI workspaces. With embedded...

I often am asked how can a person studying engineering use his summer
vacation time to learn mainframe. This article is written to describe
the process so that students can learn this interesting technology. This
article will not go in details on how...

Data centric APIs In the last post I went over how having a ready made API made building the prototype of the mobile app very easy. We could focus on trying to build the MVP. But I think we got lucky. The folks who designed Jazz and RQM made a good decision to...

Learn about the new capabilities available in OMEGAMON XE on z/OS by watching the new videos on our YouTube playlist . See what's new in version 5.3.0 and see new how-to videos on solving problems quickly with near-term history and embedded...

Hi all TDSz users, If you have not already done so, be sure to check out the new Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS wiki at the following address: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivoli/Tivoli+Decision+Support+for+zOS On here the TDSz...

We are pleased to announce the Managed Beta Program for IBM®XL C/C++ for Linux on System z. This Beta Program is separated into two stages, namely, features and compatibility, and, quality and performance. Clients participating in the Managed Beta...